EP2010626B1 - Bistable ferroelectric liquid crystal devices - Google Patents

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EP2010626B1
EP2010626B1 EP07755342A EP07755342A EP2010626B1 EP 2010626 B1 EP2010626 B1 EP 2010626B1 EP 07755342 A EP07755342 A EP 07755342A EP 07755342 A EP07755342 A EP 07755342A EP 2010626 B1 EP2010626 B1 EP 2010626B1
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Omar Farooq
Terry Victor Clapp
Fumito Nishida
Russell Keith King
Anthony Bernard Davey
Jonathan Paul Hannington
Joo-Nyung Jang
William Alden Crossland
Huan Xu
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  • Spacers 16 separate the substrates 10, 11, and define the cell thickness.
  • a sealing layer 18 is used to retain the liquid crystal material in the cell.
  • the liquid crystal electro-optic devices of the present invention typically have a cell gap designed to be in the range of 0.5 microns to 10 microns.
  • a square wave electric field can be used for the initial cell alignment. If the monodomain needs to be rotated to achieve a proper orientation, an asymmetric waveform is generally applied, but careful consideration of field parameters such as waveform, amplitude, frequency, DC offset, etc. is important, as it has been shown that the optimal range varies from compound to compound.
  • the electric field typically has a value in the range of about 1 to about 25 V/ ⁇ m at a frequency having a value in the range of about 10 Hz to about 25 kHz. In the present invention, the bistability is maintained even after the rotation.
  • a siloxane-based ferroelectric liquid crystal compound lA was synthesized. This compound had the phase sequence Iso ⁇ 80°C ⁇ SmC* ⁇ 32°C ⁇ Solid on cooling. This compound was placed between two indium-tin-oxide (ITO) coated glass substrates with the inner surfaces coated with anti-parallel rubbed nylon 6 as alignment layers. The gap size of the cells was adjusted with spacer beads, and ranged from 3 and 4.5 ⁇ m.
  • ITO indium-tin-oxide
  • test devices were placed in the cross polarized transmission microscope (Olympus BX51) equipped with photodetector, digital camera and an Instec HCS302 hot stage controlled by an Instec STC200.
  • An output from a Tektronix AFG3101 arbitrary signal generator was amplified by FLC F20A to drive the test cell.
  • the optical signal was monitored on a Tektronix TDS3034B oscilloscope via a photodetector mounted on the microscope.

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